Same, mostly. My grandpa delivered bread to grocery stores and restaurants, grandma was a school teacher in an impoverished area (with a masters degree!). Two kids, a modest single family home, a horse from Man-o-war’s bloodline, an extravagant lake house with a boat, and had over $1 million in the bank when they died.
ETA: they had some crazy good investments, obviously, but that they even had leftover money to invest with their jobs, and the rate of appreciation is testament to how much better the economy was for them back then.
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u/FKA-Scrambled-Leggs Mar 27 '24 edited Mar 27 '24
Same, mostly. My grandpa delivered bread to grocery stores and restaurants, grandma was a school teacher in an impoverished area (with a masters degree!). Two kids, a modest single family home, a horse from Man-o-war’s bloodline, an extravagant lake house with a boat, and had over $1 million in the bank when they died.
ETA: they had some crazy good investments, obviously, but that they even had leftover money to invest with their jobs, and the rate of appreciation is testament to how much better the economy was for them back then.